Thrust Oscillation Issue Threatens Ares I Design, Aviation Week

On Feb 13, 3:32*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:23:47 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Eric Chomko made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:





On Feb 13, 2:53*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:28:41 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Eric Chomko made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

..... It seems to me that the people who are actually designing it have a
more intimate understanding of what it can and can't do. *And if they
say the vibration is not a showstopper, maybe it isn't.

They don't say that, though Mike Griffin does ....

I stand corrected.

..... They say they don't
know.

Then how can someone outside the program say with certainty if the
people inside it don't know?

Say what with certainty? *I'm not saying anything with certainty.

You can say that again.

I take it back. *I can say with certainty that you're an idiot.

You say that so much one wonders if you're trying to convince yourself
of it in the propagandist style of often repeating the lie...

One only wonders that if one is an idiot.

Like a mouse that gets cocaine everytime he rings a bell, you use the
same line. One day you'll get to call me an idiot to my face. Will you
be man enough to do it then? I doubt it.